Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 32 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Realize the two-dimensional irreducible representation as the standard representation of the symmetric group onwith permuting coordinates. It is the complement of the trivial summand in the three-point permutation representation. For each prime the local factor of an Artin L-function iswhere is the inertia group and Frobenius means any lift of the residue-field Frobenius automorphism. On the lift is independent of that choice. At an unramified prime, put . The Local Artin factors of the standard representation of S3 areThe polynomial discriminant of is , so only can ramify in its splitting field. For , the squarefree factorization of modulo determines the Frobenius cycle type on its roots.
At ,The quadratic is irreducible, so Frobenius is a transposition andThus , and . At ,The quadratic discriminant is , a nonsquare, so this is again a transposition. Consequently and .
At , the possible cubes are , so has no root modulo . Being cubic, it is irreducible; Frobenius is a three-cycle. Thereforeand .
The ramified factor at must be computed on inertia group invariants. Write and set . Using givesThe Eisenstein polynomial over has degree six, so is a totally ramified degree-six subfield of . The latter has degree at most , so the fields agree. This Eisenstein sextic presentation of the splitting field of X3 minus 3 over Q3 shows . Since the only permutation-invariant vectors in have all coordinates equal, their intersection with is zero. ThusIn particular ; an unramified degree-two factor at would give the wrong coefficients.
Finally the Euler product makes its Dirichlet series coefficients multiplicative for coprime indices. Its constant coefficient is , and , . Every integer up to ten is now covered, giving